Mr. Surveyor Stapylton has returned to Sydney
from the vicinity of these rivers, where he has been for some months actively
engaged in laying down a chart of the intermediate country, the result of
this officer's labours is spoken of as being particularly favourable,
inasmuch as he has succeeded in throwing open a most delightful portion of
the territory.

The neighbourhood of the Murrumbidgee is
represented to be of the most fertile character; the soil is a stiff blue
saponaceous loam, the pasturage luxuriant, wherein indigenuous
clover, equal to a second crop of English growth, is intermixed with rich
fine grasses; the timber light, and atmospheric temperature cool.

Stations from the Abercrombie hence are rapidly multiplying, and
already form a line of communication between the two streams.

The latest arrivals at the Murrumbidgee are the herds of Messrs.
McArthur, Throsby and Ellis.